Exciting and interesting. This one is no exception. I have seen so many friends who have come from far and wide, including my good friend all the way from texas. Thank you for coming. We are now in the portion of our program, we have had a wonderful introduction to the road to guadalcanal from richard frank. Someday we are going to do a rich frank symposium, eight straight hours. No one would object. I know that. Now, we are in the portion of our program, for the next three sessions, we will be looking at land, sea, and air fighting around and over guadalcanal. We will start with the land portion. Dr. Andy west is universal dr. Andrew wiest is a distinguished professor. He is the codirector of the dale center for society. That rivals the length of my own title, and i think andy needs his own placard. He is the author of numerous books, including war in the pacific, vietnams forgotten army, and the boys of 67. He is also a great undiscovered rock drummer. He is here to speak about the f
Recently on our Author Interview program after words, los angeles Time Supreme Court correspondent david savage interviewed Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino about the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh. Heres a portion of that program. A specific category where someone has no memory and then claims to have kind of developer one interview. Its not clear shes claiming that. What we know is she doesnt have anyone until therapy but this one the things and Rachel Mitchell processor, on one side to using these notes as evidence and as a lawyer if using these as evidence you would expect a court, if his legal situation the court would examine it. They want to use those as corroboration of her statement but refuse to produce them. It is significant come to see what the experts we spoke to talk to, have therapy went because theres no therapeutic techniques that could suggest memory or to manipulate the content of those memories so you could attach the wrong perso
This is half an hour. Wanted to be a baseball player, but i always loved music, and my mother always had beeny goodwin and the lombardos, one of the two guys that had the big bands. She was into big band music and my uncle loved listening to jazz so those were the influences i had. Was your mother a pianist . No. My mother founded the freedom rise, and if you get my group youll see the equality that will blow your mind about shirl kornfeld. Shes the star in my family, not me. Today you are the star. Well, im just a representative of a hope, of a dream. Capitol records was a new concept at the time and you took a pretty commanding position there. How did that happen . My good friend sold his stock in Martha Stewart and was change an of the board of emi records for 15 years. We met if you read my book youll see, we met by accident in a snack bar, and he had taken over the job working for donny kisher in, and if you were a writer, i had already had a record out when i was 16. I was signed
All three of the criteria you mentioned about people interested in the book. I was definitely interested from a historical, musical perspective. Being a music writer for a long time. I wish id been there, but i was 12 years old, living in North Carolina at the time. So i didnt get to go, but now i feel like i was there from getting to spend so much time with michael and the book and all the incredible people i have got to meet that worked on woodstock with michael, whose stories are also part of the book. Tonight what we will do is talk a little bit amongst ourselves, for you guys to listen and be thinking of questions, because we will have time for questions at the end after we chat for a little while. I will go through a little bit of back story with michael, because like many people who were not at the festival, my impressions of woodstock were pretty much based on the film that came out in march 1970. Come to find out, when michael and i started working together on the real story,
Manchester center, vermont in 2009. Its wonderful for us to be here in a state where we feel the spirit of woodstock still lives, and we know there is a woodstock here too. I have to say, i kind of fit all three of the criteria you mentioned about people interested in the book. I was definitely interested in the topic from a historical, musical perspective for a long time. I wish i had been there, but i was 12 years old, living in North Carolina the time, so didnt get to go. Now, i feel like i was there because of getting to spend so much time with michael and working on the book and all the incredible people that weve i have gotten to meet that worked on woodstock with michael, whose stories are also part of the book. Tonight, what we are going to do is talk a little bit amongst ourselves for you guys to listen in. Be thinking of questions because we will have time for questions at the end, after we chat for a little while. Im going to go through a little bit of back story with michae